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A 2004 study found that licorice reduced testosterone production in women enough to be considered a legitimate therapy for women’s health conditions caused or exacerbated by their bodies producing too much testosterone.

Bottom line: licorice means less testosterone. More licorice means even less testosterone than less licorice. Things don’t get much clearer than this.

“But that’s not all!”

Licorice Increases Cortisol

If you’ve been studying testosterone and erectile health for long at all, you know that stress reduces testosterone.

These have just awesome effects if you have to run away from a mugger or fight a saber-tooth tiger…but when you don’t have those physical outlets those hormones stay in your body for longer than is healthy.

Studies in 1987, 1990, and 1993 all found a direct correlation between consuming licorice (or its active ingredient extracted) and increased cortisol levels (source).

As with the studies that found licorice directly reduced testosterone, these studies found higher licorice consumption meant further cortisol elevation.

That’s right, folks. Licorice not only reduces your testosterone production directly, it makes your body produce more of a substance that further reduces your testosterone production.

Licorice Reduces Androgen Receptor Activity

As you (probably) remember from high school or college anatomy classes, androgen receptors lock up and utilize the testosterone your body produces.

They’re like a receiver on the football team. Without these receptors, your QB can pass all he wants but nobody’s going to catch the ball.

And guess what? Licorice takes those androgen receptors off the field.

An Iranian study in 2009 injected rats with the active ingredient from licorice root. Eight days later, they tested the androgen receptor activity in those rats using a series of really gross methods I won’t get into here.

They found that the licorice root extract significantly reduced activity in the androgen receptors (source).

Keep in mind that this study was performed in response to research that proved licorice root helped women reduce hair growth and other secondary male characteristics, studying whether it could be a less aggressive alternative to hormone Reduction therapies.

It was looking to find out why licorice root reduced hormones, because the fact that it does was already well proven and understood.

Licorice Increases Estrogen in Men

Licorice root has been used to help menopausal women alleviate symptoms since long before humanity knew that estrogen and testosterone were things.

This century, we continue to recommend licorice root for menopausal women, because we understand that it boosts estrogen production. Since menopause comes from (among other things) a crash in estrogen, it’s a pretty simple proposition.

Study after study supports this analysis of licorice’s impact on female estrogen production — in a lab (source), in rats (source), and in humans (source).

Seriously, when it comes to testosterone production licorice gets you coming and going. Which is why it should come as no surprise to discover that…

Licorice Lowers Sex Drive

Even if the testosterone-reducing impact of licorice leaves your penis hard enough for you to be able to have sex, there’s a fair chance you won’t want to have sex.

For all of the reasons we’ve discussed above, more than one expert has recommended licorice root, tea, or candy to help reduce libido in cases where too much sex drive was a problem.

If you have that problem, you probably didn’t need to read this article. If you have the opposite problem, and you’re consuming licorice for some reason, that could be why your sex drive is suffering.

Does Licorice Lower Testosterone Levels in Men – Conclusion:

Sorry, licorice fans, this one’s not even up for debate. Eating licorice candy — or taking licorice in other forms like teas or licorice root — just ruins your testosterone production:

It makes your body produce less testosterone

It makes your body produce more of a substance that further reduces your testosterone

What testosterone is left, licorice makes it harder for your body to use

It increases your body’s production of the opposite of testosterone (estrogen)

So, if you’re having trouble with your erectile health, libido, sexual function, or anything else of that sort, lay off the licorice.